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outline 01 Keauirements 

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Normal Training High Schools, 
Secondary Agricultural Schools, 
Denominational and Private Col- 
leges with Respect to Certification 
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ISSUED JUNE IS', 1913, BY 

R. H.WILSON 

State Superintendent of Public Instruction 



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OUTLINE OF REQUIREMENTS 

for 

Normal Training High Schools, Secondary Agricultural 

Schools, Denominational and Private Colleges with 

• Respect to Certification of Graduates. 

In compliance with the recommendations of the Stale 
Department of Education, the Fifth Legislature 5f Okla- 
homa enacted two laws,— Senate Bill No. 364 and House 
Bill No. 556, — authorizing the issuance of teachers' certi- 
ficates, without examination, to the graduates of certain 
secondary schools and colleges where approved courses 
in professional training are given. 

The law authorizing the State Superintendent to issue 
■certificates to graduates of High Schools and the Second- 
ary Agricultural Schools is given in full below : 

"BE IT EXACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE 
.STATE OF OKLAHOMA: Section 1. That the State 
Superintendent of Public Instruction may issue teachers' 
•certificates, valid for two years, to all students who grad- 
uate from District Agricultural Schools or from fully ac- 
credited high schools when such schools have satisfied 
the said State Superintendent that the course of study 
completed by the students desiring such certificates is 
equivalent to a four years high school fully accredited 
with the State University and that the said schools have 
sufficient equipment for teaching agriculture, domestic 
science and manual training and that the students have 
completed such a course in psychology and the science 
of teaching as the said State Superintendent may pre- 
scribe. Certificates so issued shall license the holder to 
teach in any of the common schools in Oklahoma for a 
period of two years." 

Approved March 11, 1915. 

The City. Superintendents were asked to meet at Ok- 
lahoma City for the purpose of discussing the provisions 
of this law" with a view to having it administered in the 
interest, of all the schools. At this meeting, which was 
held April 22nd, a tentative plan was submitted by the 



State Superintendent which was agreed upon as a basis, 
and a copy of this plan was later sent to each City Super- 
intendent in the State with the request that suggestions 
be offered. A committee of City Superintendents was ap- 
pointed to confer with the State Superintendent after the 
suggestions had been filed. This committee met with the 
State Superintendent in the offices of the State Depart- 
ment of Education Monday, May 31st, and, after care- 
fully considering all suggestions that had been filed, 
agreed upon the following plan and requirements : 

TEACHERS 

(a) The teacher who directs the Normal Training 
Course of any high school must be a normal or college 
graduate with at least twenty-four months of actual 
teaching experience, a part of which experience should 
have been in rural schools. 

(b) All teachers employed in the high school must 
be college or normal school graduates or the holders of 
state high school certificates and the high schools must 
in other ways conform to the standard of the North Cen- 
tral Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. 

(c) No high school will be approved for this course 
unless all grades below the high school are taught by ef- 
ficient teachers who have scholarship equivalent to that 
of high school graduation and approved professional 
training, provided that this ruling shall not apply to suc- 
cessful teachers now in the system holding first grade 
certificates with professional training and experience. 

REQUIRED SUBJECTS 

(a) Normal training courses shall be elective and 
must be given in the eleventh or twelfth grades. Gradu- 
ates of this course must complete at least 16 high school 
units which shall include the units prescribed by the 
University. 

(b) The Normal Training Course shall consist of at 
least one-half unit in Psychology ; one-half unit in the 
science of teaching; one full unit in American History 
and Government ; one full year's work in Agriculture with 
laboratory and demonstration work giving especial em- 
phasis to school gardens and practice, not to be offered 
earlier than the eleventh grade, provided that in cases 
where this arrangement is found to be impossible, Agri- 
culture may be offered in the tenth grade; not less than 



one full unit in Domestic Science for girls and not less 
than one full unit in Manual Training for boys to be givexi 
during any year of the high school course ; and one full 
unit in review courses of six weeks each, to include the 
following subjects in the order listed: Penmanship and 
Spelling, Reading, Physiology and Sanitation, Arithmetic, 
Grammar, and Geography. It is preferred that two units 
of Domestic Science or two units of Manual Training be 
required. 

(c) One hour a day or its equivalent in time must be 
devoted to observation work, lesson plans, and practice 
teaching where possible, to give the students advantage 
of such work. All students taking the normal training- 
course must do actual observation in all grades from first 
to eighth inclusive. The outline for the subjects includ- 
ed in the normal training course, together with an ap- 
proved list of books for the professional library, will be 
published in the High School Manual, copies of which 
may be obtained from W. P. Stewart, publisher, Okla- 
homa City. 

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS 

(a) Regular students above the tenth grade or 
graduates of any high school shall be eligible to take this 
course. All high school graduates must be certified by 
the school graduating the student. 

(b) The City Superintendent is required to certify 
under oath on blanks which will be furnished by the State 
Superintendent the courses completed by each applicant 
for a certificate, with the standing on a basis of 100 per 
cent. The blank furnished will be as follows: 

SUPERINTENDENT'S CERTIFICATE 

of 

Work Done by Graduate of Normal Training High School. 

Name of High School 

Name of Graduate Age Sex ' Address 

Name of course completed Date of Graduation 



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REVIEW COURSE 



SUBJECTS 


Number 

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Length of 
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Number 
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Grade 


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Reading 










Physiology and Sanitation 










Arithmetic 










Grammar 










Geography 


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Description, in detail, of laboratory work and field work done in 
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Agriculture 



Description, in detail, of observation work done, naming grades 
in which done. (Where possible students should visit several rural 
schools) 



Description, in detail, of work done in Domestic Science 



Description, in detail, of work done in Manual Training : 



I hereby certify that has 

completed the work indicated above in a satisfactory manner and 
has complied with all the requirements of the law and of the State 
Superintendent of Public Instrucion, and, in my opinion, has the 
essential qualifications of a teacher. I, therefore, recommend that 

be granted a two year state 

certificate in accordance with the provisions of Senate Bill No. 364, 
approved March 11, 1915. 

(Date) ( Title ) 

I, the undersigned, upon oath do depose and say that I have care- 
fully checked the record of the above named applicant for a two year 
state certificate and that the record and statements herein contained 
are true and correct, to the best of my knowledge and belief, so help 
me God. 

(Title) 

Subscribed and sworn to before me this day 

of , 191 ... . 

Notary Public. 
My Commission expires , 191 ... . 

(c) No certificate will be issued to an applicant un- 
less recommended by the city superintendent as being a. 
person having the essential qualifications of a teacher, 
which recommendation shall be indicated on the face of 
the certificate when issued. It shall be the duty of the 

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city superintendent and the teacher of the Training- 
School to advise the students concerning their fitness for 
the profession of teaching, and to encourage only those 
pupils to take the Teachers' Training Course who give 
promise of making successful teachers. 

.(d) Every approved, high school must have a pro- 
fessional library of at least 25 volumes selected from a 
list submitted by, or approved by, the State Superinten- 
dent of Public Instruction and must subscribe for not less 
than six of the best Teachers' magazines published. 
Laboratory equipment must be equivalent at least to the 
minimum amount required for fully accredited high 
schools to the North Central Association. The school 
will be inspected each year by the State Superintendent 
or by some suitable person appointed by him. 

(e) Each high school desiring to qualify under this 
law will be required to file an application for approval of 
the Normal Training Course not later than September 1, 
1915, upon blanks to be furnished by the State Depart- 
ment of Education, provided that in the future any school 
desiring to meet these requirements may be permitted to 
do so on or before the first day of September each year. 

Below is the form of application prescribed by the 
State Superintendent for schools desiring to be designat- 
ed as Normal Training High Schools. These blanks may 
be secured from the State Superintendent. 

APPLICATION 

for 

Approval as Normal Training High School. 

Name of School 

Location 

Number of Years in High School Course 

Accredited with the University of Oklahoma for Units 

Number of years school has been fully accredited 

Date of last inspecion by High School Inspector 191 

Enrollment by years : 

First Second Third Fourth 

Number of graduates last year : Male Female Total 

Number Teachers in High School: Male Female Total 

Number Teachers in Grades : Male Female Total 

HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS 

.. Kind of Graduate of 

Na me Subjects Taught Certificate (Give Degree) 



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TEACHER OF PROFESSIONAL SUBJECTS 

Name Age Sex . 

Teaching Experience in detail : 



Graduate of Dale of Graduation. 

Degree Number of years in course. 

Enumerate professional subjects taken in College 



What subjects, if any. will teacher have in addition to the pro- 
fessional subj eel s ? ' 

Give standard of qualifications required for grade teachers 



GENERAL EQUIPMENT. 
Agriculture 

Value $. 

Amount of space in demonsration plat 

Distance from school 

Domestic Science 



■ Value $. 

Manual Training 



Value $. 

Value of equipment in laboratories : 

Physics $ Physiography $ 

Chemistry $ Botany $ 

Library, Number of Volumes Value $... 

Titles of professional books in library : 



Teacher's Journals subscribed for : 



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HIGH SCHOOL COURSE OF STUDY. 

First Year 

First Semester Second Semester 



Second Year 
First Semester Second Semester 



Third Year 
First Semester Second Semester 



Fourth Year 
First Semester Second Semester 



I hereby certify that the foregoing statements are correct. 

Date Superintendent. 

It is the desire of the State Superintendent to make 
the requirements broad and helpful to the Schools of the 
State. No technicalities will be invoked to exclude any 
high school which in a general way meets these require- 
ments. 

The requirements are subjects to change from year" 
to year as experience teaches the necessity or advantage 
of such changes. In order that the course may be made 
to serve the schools in an efficient manner and that the 
certificates issued under this plan may be valued highly 
by school officials, the State Superintendent will welcome 

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suggestions from the city superintendents and the teach- 
ers who direct the Normal Training Classes. No changes 
will be made in the requirements as outlined herein for 
the school year ending June 30th, 1916. In no case will 
exceptions be made to the above requirements. 

The following is the form of certificate that will be 
issued : 

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SECONDARY AGRICULTURAL SCHOOLS 



The law as printed on page 1 of this bulletin includes 
the Secondary Agricultural Schools among those schools 
which may offer normal training courses. At a meeting 
of the State Board of Agriculture and the Presidents of 
the Secondary Agricultural Schools, the following course 
of study was agreed upon and submitted to the State 
Superintendent by Hon. J. F. Darby, representing the 
Board of Agriculture and the Presidents. The State 
Superintendent approved and accepted the course. 



COURSE OF STUDY 



Boys 
First Term 
5 — English 

5 — Advanced Arithmetic 
3 — (2) — Physical Geography 
2 — (4) — Stock Judging 

(2) — Music 

(4) — Drawing 
1 — (2) — Grain Judging 

(4) — Carpentry 

(2) — Practice Work 
Second Term 
5— English 
5 — Algebra 
3 — (2) — Elementary Agriculture 

(2) — Music 

(4) — Drawing 

(4) — Carpentry 

(2) — Practice Work 
2 — (4) — Types and Breeds 
3 — Farm Crops 



Boys 

First Term 

5 — English 

4 — Ancient History 

5 — Algebra 

3 — (4) — Botany and Forestry 

3— (4)— Dairying 

(4) — Blacksmithing 
(3) — Practice Work 



Second Term 
=1 — English 
5 — Algebra 

4 — Medieval and Modern Histon 
3 — (4) — Botany, Vegetable Gar- 
dening, Fruit Growing 



FOR SECONDARY AGRICULTURAL 
SCHOOLS. 
Freshman 

Girls 
First Term 
5 — English 
5 — Arithmetic (Advanced 1 

(2) — Music 

( \) — Drawing 

(2) — Practice Work 
3 — (2) — Physical Geography 

(4) — Cooking 

(2) — 'Basketry 

(4)— Sewing 
Second Term 
5 — English 
5 — Algebra 

(2) — Music 

( } i — Drawing 
3 — ( 2 ) — Agriculture 

(4) — Cooking 

(2) — Practice Work 

(2) — Social Culture 

(4) — 'Sewing 

(2) — Laundering 
Sophomore 

Girls 
First Term 
5— English 
5 — Algebra 
3 — (4) — Botany 
4 — Ancient History 

(2) — Practice Work 

(4) — Cooking 

(4) — Sewing 
2 — Domestic Hygiene 
3 — 'Textiles 
Second Term 
S — English 
5 — Algebra 
3 — (4) — Botany 
4 — Medievel and Modern History 

(2) — Practice Work 



3— (4)— Dairying 

(4) — Blacksmi thing 
(2) — Practice Work 

4 — ( 2 ) — Farm Management 



Boys 
First 7 erm 
5 — English 
5 — -Plane Geometry 
3 — (4) — Chemistry 
3 — (4) — Soil Physics 

( 4 ) — Farm Accounts 

(2) — Practice Work 
5 — American History, Advanced 



Second Term 
5 — English 
5 — Plane Geometry 
.3 — ( 4 ) — Chemi st ry 
3 — (4) — Zoology 

( 4 ) — Farm Mechanics 
3— (4)— Poultry 

(2) — Practice Work 
5 — Civics 



Boys 
First Term 

5 — English, Literature and 
Classics 

3— (4)— Physics 

4 — (2) — Veterinary Science 
3 — (2) — Soils and Fertilizers 
5 — Advanced Algebra, or 

5— Psychology 

5 — History of Education 

(2) — Practice Work 
Second Term 
5 — American Literature and 

Classics 
3 — (4)— Physics 

4 — (2 ) — Entomology 

4 — (2) — Feed and Feeding 

5 — Solid Geometry, or 

5 — Theory and Practice of 

Teaching 
S — 'School Management 
(2) — Practice Work 



(4) — Cooking 
(4) — Sewing 
2 — Domestic Hygiene 



Junior 

Girls 
First Term 
5— English 
5 — Plane Geometry 
3— (4) — Chemistry 

(4) — Farm Accounts 

( 2 ) — Pracice Work 
2 — Home Nursing 

( 4) — Cookirjg 
2 — Household Arts 

(4) — Sewing 
Set ond Term 
5 — English 
5 — Plane Geometry 
3 — (4) — Zoologj 
3 — ( 4 t — Chemistry 
3 — (2) — Poultry 

1 2 I— Practice Work 

(4) — Fine Needle Work 
3 — Home Economics 

(4) — Cooking 

S F.N I OR 

Girls 
First Term 
5 — English 
5 — Advanced Algebra, or 

5 — Psychology 

5 — History of Education 
3— (4)— Physics 

(2) -Practice Work 

(4) — Dressmaking 

1 1 I -Cooking 

Second Term 

5— English 

5 — Solid Geometry, or 

5 — School Management 

5 — Theory and Practice 
3 — (4) — Physics 
4 — ( 2 ) — Entomology 

(4) — Millinery 

(4) — Sewing 

(4) — Cooking 



The requirements as td teachers employed, affiliation 
with the State University, equipment, application for ap- 
proval, and certification of graduates, shall be the same 
for the Secondary Agricultural Schools as for the high 
schools. 



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DENOMINATIONAL AND PRIVATE 

COLLEGES 

The Fifth Legislature passed the following act pro- 
viding for the issuance of teachers' certificates to gradu- 
ates of certain colleges and the acceptance of credits from 
such colleges : 

"BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE 
STATE OF OKLAHOMA: Section 1. Any graduate 

of any college organized under the laws of the State of 
Oklahoma, and operated in the State of Oklahoma, re- 
quiring a four years college course for graduation, and 
which has entrance requirements equivalent to a regular 
four years high school course, and maintaining a course 
in education equivalent to the course of education in the 
University of Oklahoma, said course to be approved by 
the State Hoard of Education, shall, upon application to 
the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and mak- 
ing proof of graduation from any such college and the 
■completion of said course of study, be granted a life I tigh 
School Certificate of the same rank as is granted to the 
graduates of the State University for the same class of 
work. 

"Section 2. When any such colleg-e as referred to in 
■Section 1, of this Act, has established its course of study 
and same has been approved by the State Board of Edu- 
cation, any credit made in such college, which would en- 
title the holder thereof to graduation in that subject, may 
be substituted within three years from the time the credit 
is granted, in lieu of an examination on that subject on 
any teachers' certificate." Approved March 12, 1915. 

At a conference of the presidents of the denomination- 
al and private colleges of Oklahoma, held in the State 
Superintendent's office at Oklahoma City. May 17, 1915, 
the president and the Director of the School of Educa- 
tion of the State University being present, the following 
regulations were agreed upon in order to carry out the 
provisions of the foregoing act : 

First, The Course in Education shall include four 
hours, — an hour being one recitation per week or it^ 
equivalent in laboratory exercises for one semester, — in 
General Psychology, four hours in methods of teaching 
specific subjects, and a sufficient amount of other work in 

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Education and Psychology to make the total at least 24 
hours; the specific subjects in each case to be approved 
by the State Board of Education. The professional work- 
in the School of Education of the University of Okla- 
homa consists of twenty-four hours in Education and 
Psychology including : 

General Psychology, four hours, (in catalog as Philosophy i) ; 
Educational Psychology, two hours, (Education 2) ; 
Genetic Psychology, two hours, (Philosophy 104) ; 
Child Study, two hours, (Education 104); 
Methods of teaching in major and minor subjects, four hours, 
(Education 131 to 144 inclusive) ; 

6. Eight hours in elective educational subjects selected from the 
following : 

History of Education, Ancient and Medieval; 

History of Education, Modern ; 

Principles of Education ; 

The High School Program of Studies; 

High School Administration; 

Experimental Education ; 

Elementary School Methods ; 

Educational Classics; 

Secondary School Methods ; 

Comparative School Systems ; 

Principles of Moral Education ; 

Social Phases of Education ; 

City School Administration; 

Educational Measurements; 

Psychology of Retardation and Mental Defici- 
ency ; 

Industrial Education; 

Vocational Guidance ; 

School Hygiene; 

Statistical Method; 

Rural Education ; 

Practice Teaching; 

Practice Teaching; 

Philosophy of Education ; 

Seminar in Educational Psychology; 

Current Educational Problems ; 

Seminar in Educational Administration ; 

The Psychology and Pedagogy of Reading. 
(References above are to the catalog of the University.) 

The twelve hours not specifically named in the fore- 
going general requirements may be selected from any of 
the elective courses indicated above. 



Education 4. 
Education 5. 
Education 101. 
Education 102. 
Education 103. 
Education 105. 
Education 106. 
Education 107. 
Education 108. 
Education 109. 
Education no. 
Education ill. 
Education 112. 
Education 113. 
Education 114. 

Education 115. 
Education 116. 
Education 117. 
Education 118. 
Education 119. 
Education 129. 
Education 130. 
Education 201. 
Education 202. 
Education 203. 
Education 204. 
Education 205. 



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Second. The head of the Department of Education 
must be a graduate of a standard college and must have 
a master's degree and by experience and training be es- 
pecially fitted for the work in Education. 

Third. Colleges desiring to secure the benefits of this 
law will be required to file an application giving a com- 
plete statement of plan of organization, faculty of col- 
lege and preparatory department, course of instruction, 
students enrolled, plant and equipment, and financial 
statement. Blanks for this purpose may be obtained 
from the Secretary of the State Board of Education. 

Fourth. The courses completed by the graduates of 
the denominational and private colleges must be certified 
in detail on blanks prescribed by the State Board of Edu- 
cation. 

CONCLUSION 

The foregoing laws and requirements are the out- 
growth of plans and efforts put forth during the past four 
years for the purpose of uniting all of the educational 
forces in the state into one great correlated system for 
advancing and raising the standard of our schools. We 
desire that certificates for teachers be based upon broad 
scholarship and thorough preparation rather than upon 
the ability of an individual to answer questions submit- 
ted by an examining board in such a way as to secure 
what is considered a passing grade. A wise administra- 
tion of these provisions by the State Superintendent and 
conscientious co-operation by the city superintendents 
and others interested in this subject will result in the 
elevation of the standard for teachers throughout the 
state. 

It has not been our expectation that a great many of 
the high schools will be able to meet these requirements 
the first year. However, we do believe that a sufficient 
number will meet these requirements to justify the estab- 
lishment of this plan. We are convinced that high school 
students finishing this course as prescribed will be far 
better qualified to teach than the average rural school 
teacher in the state today. In addition to this, it will en- 
able many boys and girls to prepare themselves to teach 
under the care and protection of the home and without 
the expense of going away to school. 

We further believe that the tendency of high schools 

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that do not meet these requirements at present will be 
to plan to meet them later. In this way the standard of 
teachers and equipment of high schools will be elevated 
and each year a larger number of boys and girls will be 
given an opportunity to do this normal training work at 
home. 

in regard to the secondary agricultural schools, we 
are glad to be able to assist them by recognizing the work 
done by their students when they meet the requirements 
for certificates. We believe that they should be permit- 
ted to have the same advantages that are given to other 
schools, and will cheerfully extend to them these privil- 
eges when they have complied with these requirements. 
So far as the plan applies to the denominational or inde- 
pendent colleges, we will be glad to give them recogni- 
tion when they have met the requirements and made 
their standard equal to the standard required by the State 
University of Oklahoma. 

With us, it is not a question of where the teacher at- 
tended school, provided the school gave him scholarship 
broad enough and thorough enough to prepare him to 
teach. We solicit tin- support and co-operation of all who 
are interested in developing a bigger, broader and more 
economical school system. Thoroughness and adapta- 
bility to the work should be the main qualities <>f every- 
one who teaches the children of this state. In develop- 
ing and promoting these new plans, I beg for your as- 
sistance by means of any suggestions you have to offer 
which will make the plan better, and with this in mind 1 
appeal to everyone who reads this bulletin to offer any 
suggestions which they feel will make the plans stronger 
and more helpful. 

Sincerelv vours, 

R. H. WILSON, 
State Superintendent of Public Instruction. 



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